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September 9,  2009
We had 12 members attending the meeting and one guest speaker with the name Richard Post a good friend of Eph Horowitz.  Eph Horowitz opened the meeting by introducing his friend Richard Post who knows more about World's Fairs than anyone according Eph.

Eph recorded 13:00 minutes, of the 1939-1940 World’s Fair Closing Day on October 27,  1940, on a 16mm Kodachrome film.  His video recording had music in the background and Richard Post narrated the video in person for us.  The 16mm Kodachrome was digitized and recorded on a DVD by the New York Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) and used for the documentary
This video showed  Eph’s sister and a lovely young Shirley Horowitz, also a 24 year old Eph Horowitz.  The documentary brought lots of memories back to the audience.  The resolution of the video was a little darker on our projector as on television Eph explained the light pulp of our projector was blamed for this fact.
Ted Perzeszty didn’t bring a video with him instead he introduced us to a Digital Voice Recorder.  This recorder can be very useful if you attend a meeting like ours and don’t want miss anything said. 
The recorder is the Olympus VN-5200 PC, the recorder records 35 hours of Hi quality audio.  Ted paid $38.00 for it at COSTCO.  We made several recordings for testing the audio recorder.  Bob Grando asked the members for their permission before doing so.
Fred God  showed the next video item an indoor / outdoor Bescor light model # LED-35 D, which he used  for recording a surprise birthday party that was shown later in the evening.  Fred paid $184.00 for his light at a place in Farmingdale. 
Click on the play button of the player icon to the right and you can hear what Fred had to say about his new Boscor light, which was recorded on Ted’s new Digital Audio Recorder.
The second video of the evening was a travelogue produced by Eric Schwarz and named “The Amish Trip”  13:17.   The movie showed Eric and his wife Janis taking their 7 year old grandson Mathew to the Amish Country in Pennsylvania  and introducing him to a sheep ranch where a Llama does the herding, a pig roast, a night in a Red Caboose Motel, a Buggy Ride and a Pretzel Factory.  The video documented a vacation, which Mathew and his grand parents will remember the rest of their lives. The original video was 30 minutes long and Eric edited it down to 13 minutes and 17 seconds.  Nice job Oma and Opa keep up the good work with Mathew and your videos.
The third production screened was produced by Fred God and called “A Surprise Party”.  It was a birthday party for a seventy year old boy who had no idea what was in store for him at the Bay Shore Community Hall.  The ultimate surprise were his two daughters, which came from out of State, to jump at him from out of a closet.  Fred used his Panasonic 3 chip camcorder and the new Bescor light, indoors and sometimes outdoors.  Fred made a short and a long version of the party for the Birthday Boy.  The short version he showed us was 13 minutes in duration.
We had still some time on hand and we used it to show two videos from our movie friends in Melbourne, Australia the Ringwood Movie Makers .

The first production was called “Be Careful What You Wish For” 11:00,  A genie granted 3 wishes to a young man, the first two wishes came true with a negative result that effected the young man.  The third and last wish had also a negative result but not only for the young man but also for the genie.  The moral of the story was, to be glad with what you have.  Nice script and acting by all the participants in the movie, we congratulate them on their work.

The second production was a Nature movie called the “Time To Relocate” 4:00.  The producer discovered a Koala bear on a walk.  He relocated to another tree to get better protection from an upcoming storm.   Excellent camera work and narration. 

Bob Grando closed the meeting at 9:30 PM with thanking Doug Klemm for bringing chocolate candies.  Bob also reminded the members to inform Willi Eberl or him of what movie they will enter for the 2-minute contest at our next meeting on October 14th, 2009.

Written by Willi Eberl

Edited by Phil Guterman